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"Mr President, the Commission, in its second report on this issue, welcomes and endorses the measures taken in all Member States to guarantee the voluntary and unpaid donation of human tissues and cells. However, it very firmly highlights the dramatic shortage facing a majority of Member States.
Our task, therefore, was to propose improvements and to work on these two important key areas. I regret the fact that, despite the rapporteur’s efforts – and I thank her once again, but she knows that – most of my colleagues think that these intangible principles of free donation and anonymity should not, quite simply, be associated with humanism and humanity, on the one hand; nor should they, on the other hand, undermine efforts to address this shortage and to fulfil the desperate expectations of so many patients in the EU. That is the reality, the reality that is lived every day by practitioners and patients, tens of thousands of whom are waiting for a cornea, bone marrow or skin transplant.
In conclusion, Mr President, the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, which I represent, which respects the freedom to conduct research and is mindful of the expectations of these patients, will be abstaining in tomorrow’s vote on this resolution."@en1
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